Newer AI approaches aren’t just innovating with different architectures — they’re innovating on the substrate itself. San Francisco startup The Biological Computing Co….
Three of the most cited names in consciousness science have come together to make a public case against machine sentience. In a new…
A new neuroscience paper on how the brain represents conscious and unconscious content is making the rounds, and it’s drawn a notable reaction…
A study out of UC Berkeley and Caltech, led by neuroscientists Janis Hesse and Doris Tsao, recently reported something genuinely strange: when monkeys…
A new study out of UC Berkeley and Caltech has produced one of the most striking neuroscience findings in years: the brain doesn’t…
There’s plenty of debate around AI consciousness, but someone at the ringside of the field says that models sure sound like they have…
The argument over whether AI can be conscious is quickly turning into something that looks less like a scientific debate and more like…
AI models could be more like humans than one originally thought. Anthropic researchers have found evidence that some large language models can inspect…
Progress in AI is making people update their priors about the origins of the universe. Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch has speculated that the…